Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
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App Usage Predicts Cognitive Ability in Older Adults
This paper investigates how older adults use smartphones differently from younger adults and whether those differences can be explained by cognitive function. The researchers collected three months of iPhone usage data from 84 healthy older adults (a…
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"It's almost like they're trying to hide it": How User-Provided Image Descriptions Have Failed to Make Twitter Accessible
This paper presents the first large-scale empirical study of how Twitter's opt-in image description feature (launched in 2016) has affected the accessibility of images on the platform. The researchers analyzed 1.09 million tweets with images collecte…
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Tracking @stemxcomet: Teaching Programming to Blind Students via 3D Printing, Crisis Management, and Twitter
This paper describes the design and execution of a four-day programming workshop for blind and visually impaired high school students, conducted as part of the National Federation of the Blind's STEM-X summer science camp. Nine students (grades 8-12)…
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Screen Recognition: Creating Accessibility Metadata for Mobile Applications from Pixels
This paper from Apple introduces Screen Recognition, a system that automatically generates accessibility metadata for mobile apps by analyzing their visual pixels, enabling screen readers to work with apps that lack proper developer-provided accessib…
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Real-Time Captioning with the Crowd
This article presents Scribe, a crowdsourced real-time captioning system that allows groups of non-expert typists to collectively produce captions at the speed of natural speech — a task that normally requires highly trained professional stenographer…
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Hacking Blind Navigation
This workshop summary describes a one-day CHI 2019 workshop designed to bring together researchers from multiple disciplines working on assistive navigation technologies for blind people. The organizers — experts from Carnegie Mellon University, Univ…
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Crowd-AI Camera Sensing in the Real World
This paper presents Zensors++, a hybrid crowd-AI camera sensing system that allows users to point a networked camera at a scene, define a natural language question about it (such as "Is the coffee machine in use?" or "How many people are in the room?…
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People with Visual Impairment Training Personal Object Recognizers: Feasibility and Challenges
This paper explores whether people with visual impairments can train their own personalized object recognition systems using a smartphone camera and a small number of example photos. The authors address a fundamental limitation of existing object rec…
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Twitter A11y: A Browser Extension to Make Twitter Images Accessible
This paper presents Twitter A11y, a browser extension designed to address the widespread lack of alternative text on images posted to Twitter. The authors note that while around 12% of Twitter content consists of images, only 0.1% of those images inc…
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Leveraging Complementary Contributions of Different Workers for Efficient Crowdsourcing of Video Captions
This paper presents BandCaption, a crowdsourcing system that combines automatic speech recognition (ASR) with input from diverse crowd workers to efficiently correct video captions. The key insight is that different groups of people — hearing-impaire…